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of many societies The Edinburgh Naturalists' Field 

 Club, The Royal Physical Society of Scotland, The 

 Dover Field Club and Natural History Society, The 

 Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, The Largo 

 Field Naturalists' Society, and The Alphazo Society 

 of Elmira, New York, for the promotion and study 

 of Natural History. The President of the latter 

 Society, in forwarding the certificate of honour to 

 Mr. Edward, observed : " There are many across the 

 sea who not only honour you for your indomitable 

 patience and perseverance, but love you for your 

 devotion to that science which they feebly but 

 earnestly endeavour to serve." 



Besides these acknowledgments of Mr. Edward's 

 merits, a lady in London proposed to erect a drinking 

 fountain in Banff at a cost of 100, and in connec- 

 tion with it to restore the old market cross referred 

 to in the Naturalist's Life. She proposed to call it 

 " Edward's Fountain." Unfortunately, her generous 

 design was frustrated, although the Metropolitan 

 Drinking Fountain Association of London was 

 ready to supply the necessary designs. Aberdeen 

 would perhaps have been the most fitting place, 

 where due encouragements would have been given 

 for the erection of a drinking: fountain. 



